"Struggles in the soul make poetry possible."
"I have the idea of a time-spirit in the air which the poet seizes, mysteriously, out of the air to give his truth to the world."
"It is necessary to hail delicacy wherever it is found in men."
From Of Poetry and Poets: "Poetry is a confrontation of the whole being with reality." "It is a basic struggle of the soul, the mind, and the body to comprehend life; to bring order to chaos or to phenomena: and by will and insight to create communicable verbal forms for the pleasure of mankind."
"The poet may be said equally to depend on environment, to seek continuously the right environment, and the poem comes only when the environmental situation is such that it evokes poetry."
"If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the souls of others."